Smart Systems Lead

**_Job Title: Smart Systems Lead_** **_Location: Glasgow HQ_** **_Salary: £52,480 - £65,600_** **_Closing Date: Friday 1st September_** **_Help us create a better future, quicker_** Our SP Energy Networks business is responsible for the distribution of electricity to your property via our network of pylons, substations, cables and power lines. We serve 3.5 million homes and businesses across Central & Southern Scotland, Cheshire, Merseyside, North Shropshire and North Wales. **_What you’ll be doing_** - Project management for the implementation of systems and processes to support data management and analytics. This includes the tracking and coordination of investment and supporting process change across the business in order to deliver our smart systems strategy. - Provides decisions and/or arbitrates as the final level of technical responsibility - Provides escalation of technical issues, internally & externally, that are unable to be resolved at team level - Specifically, management of implementation & support of the EIP, SDIF and FOL systems and management of roadmap and budgets and developments. - Stakeholder engagement to promote the use of data management techniques into the wider SPEN business - Lead the scoping, acceptance and testing of new systems to ensure that they integrate with existing systems, provide the appropriate functionality and are fit for future requirements liaising closely with IT/OT/Cyber to ensure the business requirements of SPEN are represented in these processes - Lead the proposal/budget management process for new and existing projects from initial request to final reporting of completion - Support business unit’s implementation plans for new processes that maximise the benefit of data management tools. Track these changes through to implementation to ensure that the business benefit is recorded. - Assist the Smart Systems Manager by taking the lead in vendor management activities - Team leader and line management responsibility for team members driving personal and technical development. **_What you’ll bring_** - Knowledge of the UK electricity market and Networks businesses in particular. - Experience in network design or connections would be beneficial - Experience of smart meter industry in GB or internationally would be beneficial - Experience of managing programmes of work involving a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and suppliers. - Strong influencing skills when working with external and internal parties. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Experience of scoping, specifying, testing and acceptance of new IT/data systems from a business perspective - Experience of data manipulation and analysis techniques - Proven ability to devise solutions to complex problems/challenges and implementing changes associated with them **_What’s in it for you_** As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%. At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include: - 36 days annual leave - Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave - Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme - Payroll giving and charity matched funding - Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes - Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change - Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving - Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans - Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments - Life Assurance (4x salary) - Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support - Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more **_Why SP Energy Networks_** SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the Northwest of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable ener